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A Hungry Dinosaur The dinosaur known as the Brontosaurus is now called the Apatosaurus. It was one of the largest land animals that has ever existed. This dinosaur lived in what is known as the Jurassic Period, 150 million years ago. The Apatosaurus, hatched from enormous foot long eggs and may have lived long enough to celebrate100 birthdays! This huge dinosaur was an herbivore which means it ate only plants. The hungry Apatosaurus must have spent his entire day munching and crunching on plants to maintain his massive body. This gigantic plant-eater measured about 80 feet long or close to the length of two school buses. It stood about 30 feet tall or the height of a 4 story building. It weighed roughly 30 tons; the weight of 10 cars! Apatosaurus had a very tiny brain in a small head which was less than 2 feet long. The Apatosaurus had a long neck and a long tail. It had four massive column-like legs with the back legs being longer than the front legs. We know all this because people have found fossilized remains of the Apatosaurus in the Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming and Canada. If you would like to look for dinosaurs bones when you grow up, you can become a scientist called a “Paleontologist”. In the meantime, one way to enjoy and learn about dinosaurs is to create them. Use the following sample to create your own Apatosaurus!
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Procedure: Draw a line to divide a paper plate in half. On half of the circle, draw a tail, front leg, back leg, and the neck and head as shown. Using scissors, cut out the dinosaur pieces.
Color the dinosaur using crayon, paint or markers. Decorate with shapes, patterns and bright colors. Attach the pieces with tape or glue. To create a moving dinosaur, attach with paper fasteners!
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Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was raised in a Quaker family with lots of activist traditions. She had very strong morals and spent alot of her life working on social issues. Her family moved to a farm in 1840 where they became involved in the fight to end slavery. This was also known as the Abolitionists Movement. The farm started to serve as a meeting place for abolitionists like Frederick Douglass. Anthony later on became the head of a girls department at Canajoharie Academy. However, she was only there for two years. After leaving the Academy, she decided to devote her time to social issues. She also got involved in the Temperance Movement, which aimed at slowing down or completely stopping the production of alcohol. She realized while at a temperance meeting in 1851 that she was never given the opportunity to speak because of the fact that she was a woman. She then realized that women were not taken seriously in politics because they did not have the right to vote. Anthony and another activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, established the Womens Temperance Society in 1852. Before long, they started to fight for women’s rights. She started to make petitions for women to have the right to own property and the right to vote. After the Civil War, Anthony focused even more on women’s rights. She helped to establish the American Equal Rights association in 1866, calling for the same rights to be granted for everyone no matter their race or gender. Anthony and Stanton produced and created a weekly publication called The Revolution. The newspaper’s motto was "Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less.” Anthony proceeded to move forward in supporting women’s rights. In 1905, she met with president Theodore Roosevelt in Washington D.C. for an amendment Susan B. Anthony granting women the right to vote. Anthony U.S. dollar coin died in the following year on March 13,
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Platypus The platypus is an unlikely animal in nature. The animal is often described as a mix of a beaver (tail), duck (bill and webbed feet), and an otter (body and fur). Males are also venomous. They have sharp stingers on the heels of their rear feet and can use them to deliver a strong toxic blow. The platypus is a mammal. They hunt underwater. They have webbed front feet and steer with their back feet and beaver like tail that helps them move in the water. Folds of their skin cover their eyes and ears to prevent the water from entering. Their nostrils close with a watertight seal also. They scoop up insects, worms, shellfish, and larvae with their bill. They also pick up some gravel and mud from the bottom of the water. They do not have teeth, so the bits of gravel help them to chew their meal. However, they can’t move quite as well on land. The webbing at their front feet retracts to reveal individual nails that helps them to run. They can use these nails to dig and construct burrows at water edges. Females will use these burrows to lay their eggs. A mother usually will have 1-2 eggs. To keep them warm she will put the eggs between her body and tail. After about 10 days a platypus infant is
born. At first the infants are the size of only a jelly bean and completely helpless. The mother will only nurse the infant for about 34 months until the platypus is capable of swimming on its own.
Did You Know? • The platypus can use their cheeks to hold things like food. • The platypus can sleep up to 14 hours in a day! • In the 1900s the platypus was hunted by many for their fur. • When a platypus swims, their eyes, ears, and mouth shut • Platypus is one of only two mammals (the echidna is the other)
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I Want To Play The Bassoon! The bassoon is the lowest sounding and the largest of the woodwind instruments. They are made of maple wood and also of ebonite. Student sized bassoons are made of plastic resin to make the instrument more affordable. Most bassoon players need to have big hands so many students learn another instrument first. It has a double reed that is attached to the bocal which is a curved tube. Early bassoons were called Dulcians or Curtals. The main difference from those to modern day bassoons, is that the old instruments were carved from a single piece of wood and didn’t have any keys! In France during the 17th century, instrument builders made the first bassoon with separate joints and by the mid 19th century, the 17 key bassoon was developed.
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Basketball Anyone? fore crowds of many millions annually. The women’s basketball league (WNBA) was established in 1997. You can visit the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Check out all the names of great players, coaches, referees, and people who have contributed significantly to the development of this popular game.
Can You Unscramble The Names Of These Famous Basketball Players? 1. ROLEBN AMJES _______________________________________ 2. EERMKA LUDAB-BBAARJ _______________________________________ 3. CIMGA NSOHONJ _______________________________________ 4. SALI SLLEEI _______________________________________ 5. ILCHAEM RDAONJ _______________________________________ 6. BEKO RYTANB _______________________________________ 7. CDAANCE RKAPER _______________________________________ 8. QUISHALLE NLEAO _______________________________________ 9. AADIN AUTSARI _______________________________________ 10. RRALY RIBD _______________________________________ Answers: 1. LeBron James, 2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 3. Magic Johnson, 4. Lisa Leslie, 5. Michael Jordan, 6. Kobe Bryant, 7. candace Parker, 8. Shaquille O’Neal, 9. Diana Taurasi, 10. Larry Bird
In December of 1891, basketball was invented by a Canadian who was a clergyman, educator, and physician. His name was James Naismith. He introduced this game when he was in Springfield, Massachusetts at the Young Men’s Christian Association Training School (now Springfield College). His superior asked him to organized a vigorous recreation that was suitable for winter indoor play. At that time, the teams had 9 players. The first balled used were soccer balls and the goals were wooden peach baskets that were attached to the walls. In 1897-1898, teams of five became the standard. The game also spread nationwide, to Canada and other parts of the world. It was played by both men and women. U.S. servicemen in World War II, made the sport popular in many other countries as they played it for recreation. In 1934, the first college games were played in New York City’s Madison Square Gardens. By the 1950’s, basketball had become a major college sport. One of the first and greatest pro teams was the Original Celtics, organized about 1915 in New York City. They played as many as 150 games a season and dominated basketball until 1936. The Harlem Globetrotters, founded in 1927, was and still is a notable exhibition team who specializes in amusing court antics and expert ball handling. In 1949 two professional leagues, the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merged to create the National Basketball Association (NBA). By the 1960s, pro teams from coast to coast played be-
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